The Go-Giver, with John David Mann

In this episode, Kirstin and Mark talk with John David Mann

John is an award-winning and best-selling author of more than 27 books that focus on parables about leadership like the Go-Giver series, The Latte Factor and Out of the Maze, which was the sequel to Who Moved My Cheese.

Since Entelechy is about leadership, we asked John to highlight what you can learn from the Go-Giver leadership and why it still is such an appealing book 12 years later.John tells us how his early career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer, changed by collaborating with Bob Berg on the Go-Giver books and shares with us the secrets to becoming a great storyteller. What collaborating and ghostwriting on some different projects including a memoir for an ex-Navy seal sniper, has taught him about leadership.Focusing on the go-giver series in leadership, John Mann highlights the 2 types of leaders and how leaders can move from getting (whether it’s from their investors or stakeholders ) to giving. 

In addition, we talk about the 4 fingers and thumb rule when it comes to great leaders. And out of these, you will learn how to be:

Receptive leader and person in general. Living with a spirit of generosityGetting into the flow of giving and how it becomes your native state of being

When it comes to working in a team as a leader, John tells us how to balance perspective and empathy. And acknowledging your part of a cooperative enterprise.  

John’s main takeaway from this series is if you put your focus on helping other people by putting your focus on their interests, you end up succeeding yourself. 

John is currently working with his wife on a new book, The Go-Giver Marriage, for spring of 2022

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John David Mann's latest book: Steel Fear on Amazon